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...Shaw was what is called today a compulsive writer; he carried a cloth bag of unanswered correspondence about with him, to be dipped into and answered at any idle moment-"scrawled in trains, between acts, in fragments to amuse you at breakfast," he wrote. They will astonish today's telephone generation, which normally does not get letters at breakfast even if it has time for breakfast...
...Message Credible? For Protestantism, this is an era of unfettered clerics. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike could not astonish anyone now, no matter what he says, and Baptist Minister Martin Luther King has inspired many clergymen to think that their natural habitat is the civil rights demonstration. But there is no comparable liberty within Catholicism. Thus the Berrigan case raises the question, unanswered by the Vatican Council, of the limits of clerical obedience, and the deeper issue once posed by Swiss Theologian Hans Küng: "How is the church's message of freedom to be regarded as credible...
...away the myth was a hero's job. Schlesinger, unlike his rival, really tried, and no quibbles about the book should mask the fact that his achievement is extraordinary. He is, to begin with, a master narrator; the elegance of the book will astonish those who read Life's patched-together excepts. But an even greater achievement is his knowledge of what was going on in the world while John Kennedy was President. His store of detail is prodigious, and his use of his carefully dug-up gems masterly. He illustrates the disquieting attitude of the press towards the radical...
...School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks' most handsome purchase was Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite. The San Francisco Call la mented at the time that the painting "is now doomed to the seclusion of a Ver mont town where it will astonish the na tives." It would have easily astonished sophisticated San Franciscans. Ten feet high and 15 feet wide, the landscape overwhelms the viewer with a vast panorama of nature. The two famed domes in what is now California's Yosemite National Park soar in the background...
Story is seldom Antonioni's first concern, and in Red Desert he seems keener to offer Actress Vitti's jumpy, hyper-tense performance as an almost clinical study of neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become...